SAINT EDMOND’S STATION
We’ve been working on the railroad-night and day-all weeklong. Commencing during the final week of the 2006-2007 academic year, all departments of the model New Haven RR went into high gear starting with the civil engineer planning the six elevations for the tracks plus two shelves for storage around the interior of storage room #136 which continues the six track lines of the lower elevator lobby that branch off the lines from the train lobby. Using all the lumber that was rescued from the 1951 steer barn, which has housed the previous 600’ layout, the construction crew built thirty-six bridges each eight feet long along the west wall going through the tunnel walls with close clearances and then continuing three of those routes another sixteen feet on the south wall and then looping around the east wall ten feet for the return. The track was then laid down by the track crew closely followed by the wiring crew to power those rails. One by on the lines were inspected and tested correcting alignments and clearances and given the high ball signal to become operational. As a result all the reclaimed 600’ of track from the barn was used along with its hardware. This also included removing the west curve of the table’s outside track so that it would be reconfigured in order to travel to room #136 and back so passenger trains travel from Boston to Washington, DC. At the same time another route was built one foot above the floor weaving in and out under the table and through room #136 so the freight trains now can travel from Los Angeles to Boston with points in between. The elevated route was electrified and now employs the North Pole and Snow Flake Railroad equipment donated by Kevin Tucker ’82. A Connecticut Co. trolley will operate along the west wall as soon as the rest of the electronic equipment is installed. Three Shoreline commuter trains will also join the operating lines once computer electronics are installed. We even have an “N” scale line operating in homeroom 7-2SAINT EDMOND’S STATION
We’ve been working on the railroad-night and day-all weeklong. Commencing during the final week of the 2006-2007 academic year, all departments of the model New Haven RR went into high gear starting with the civil engineer planning the six elevations for the tracks plus two shelves for storage around the interior of storage room #136 which continues the six track lines of the lower elevator lobby that branch off the lines from the train lobby. Using all the lumber that was rescued from the 1951 steer barn, which has housed the previous 600’ layout, the construction crew built thirty-six bridges each eight feet long along the west wall going through the tunnel walls with close clearances and then continuing three of those routes another sixteen feet on the south wall and then looping around the east wall ten feet for the return. The track was then laid down by the track crew closely followed by the wiring crew to power those rails. One by on the lines were inspected and tested correcting alignments and clearances and given the high ball signal to become operational. As a result all the reclaimed 600’ of track from the barn was used along with its hardware. This also included removing the west curve of the table’s outside track so that it would be reconfigured in order to travel to room #136 and back so passenger trains travel from Boston to Washington, DC. At the same time another route was built one foot above the floor weaving in and out under the table and through room #136 so the freight trains now can travel from Los Angeles to Boston with points in between. The elevated route was electrified and now employs the North Pole and Snow Flake Railroad equipment donated by Kevin Tucker ’82. A Connecticut Co. trolley will operate along the west wall as soon as the rest of the electronic equipment is installed. Three Shoreline commuter trains will also join the operating lines once computer electronics are installed. We even have an “N” scale line operating in homeroom 7-2